Why do women and the society dislike the loaded who are mean, yet it’s their money? By GW Ngari Editor-at-Large Some Kenyan men could do very well as faces of the online Stingy Men Association of Kenya: The late Mbiyu Koinange, President Jomo Kenyatta’s brother in-law, left a Sh30 billion estate, but wore only one […]
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Money never sleeps: Smoking out faceless billionaire John Kibunga Kimani
If you’re a Safaricom subscriber, a diehard drinker of EABL products, you make him filthy rich By GW Ngari Editor-at-Large @UndercoverKe Reclusive billionaire Dr John Kibunga Kimani, one of Kenya’s Uber-rich serial investors, can get lost in a crowd of three. Until recently, there was no photo of him in the public domain. As is […]
Killer deals: When dead PCEA pastor stole Sh2.8 million from dead businessman!
Rev Peter Kania withdrew Sh3 million after his death and four months later his deactivated cell phone cleaned three bank accounts dry By Pascal Owade Contributing Editor/Crime It was the bizarre case of a pastor whose accounts lost Sh3 million before he was buried and his cell phone number used to steal Sh2.8 million from […]
Senator Yusuf Haji: ‘Go to hell with your little shaggy government devils’!
He got a driver jailed for three months for refusing to give him a lift By Undercover Reporter @UndercoverKe One day at 7:30 am in June 1988 when Kenya was still in democratic Stone Age, a big man in government made a small man go to jail over a lift. It was a case of […]
Mark Too: Mpango’s kids demanding share of Sh500 million, 19 farms, houses in Muthaiga, Lavington
The mpango’s kids of late billionaire Nginyo Kariuki are also demanding a piece of his Sh4 billion estate By Shifa Mwihaki Feature writer/Essayist @UndercoverKe The late politician Mark Too had two wives and 11 children-four from mpango wa kando-and now crawling from the woodworks demanding their share of his multibillion shilling estate. It is a […]
Hosea Kiplagat: Once filthy rich ‘Tugen Mafia’ dies in suffocating debt
Former prison warden and President’s nephew was Kenya’s largest timber poles dealer By Undercover Reporter @UndercoverKe As he sipped wine at a private member’s club last Friday, death was smoking a joint waiting for Hosea Kiplagat at the Karen Hospital. Kiplagat-a Moi political orphan- had left his Karen home along Quarry Lane to Invergara Club […]
Joyce Laboso: Auctioneers knocking on Sh100 million inheritance drama!
Women leave inheritance to their kids leaving out husbands. The late governor was no different… complicating matters By GW Ngari Editor-at-Large @UndercoverKe Your dear loving wife is unlikely to include you in her Will. Her bank account savings, which are a state secret, have the children listed as next of kin. You are also unlikely […]
Simeon Nyachae: One of 100 children, loved classy Kikuyu women!
Born with a silver spoon in his mouth, his dad was the first Kisii to own cars, grow coffee By Undercover Reporter He had a soft spot for Kikuyu women. Of his five wives-who gave him 20 children-two were from Mt Kenya: One, the sister of a Cabinet Minister’s wife, the other a soldier’s daughter […]
Wife to Daddy Owen: See you in court, dude!
Farida Wambui demanding custody of their kids and that gospel musician delete all family photos on social media By Shifa Mwihaki Feature writer/Essayist @UndercoverKe Gospel musician Daddy Owen is facing a lawsuit from his estranged wife, Farida Wambui. The celebrity couple who went separate ways last December after four years of marriage will now face […]
Mighty Salim: Friends, fans dropped me like a bad habit!
Musician had long suspected family deaths could be linked to sidestepping Kikuyu traditions Weighed down by earning Sh10 ferrying sacks of maize in rural Subukia, Mugithi One-Man guitarist Mighty Salim, borrowed Sh300 from the sister of a friend to seek fortunes in Nairobi. That was in 1999 when the class eight graduate came looking or […]